This is part two of a three-part course in high school earth science. In this study guide, students will learn to observe the weather and make predictions for their local microclimate.
Spine Text
This study guide accompanies the living book The Secret World of Weather by Tristan Gooley (The Experiment, 2021). It is available on Amazon, but for a more extensive used-copy search, try used.addall.com.
- 332 pages, 22 chapters
- (206 pp, 11 chapters in this guide)
- Reading Level: Grade 7-12
- Prerequisites: Form 3-4 Weather, strongly suggested
Author Bio
Tristan Gooley grew up as a “suburban kid” in the UK, but he always loved the chance to get into the woods with his friends. Unstructured and informal times outdoors were his favorites, even if it was on a football pitch, with no structured game, please. Always journey driven, and as young as he can remember, his thoughts ran along the lines of, “I wonder if my friends and me can get from here to there?”.
Nicknamed the “Sherlock Holmes of nature”, Tristan Gooley’s philosophy is “Everything we see and sense outdoors has meaning, it is a clue or sign to something else.” Mr. Gooley loves to help people get away from screens and dials, to have a small, deep understanding that using something like birdsong can help you understand you’ve gotten to the edge of the woods or the wind you are feeling and the landscape you are on can help you navigate and predict the weather.
The Natural Navigator is a pilot, sailor, researcher, communicator, investigator, adventurer, and writer, just to name a few. He has even named a kind of path, which the Royal Institute of Navigation has formally christened. It is the “smile path”. Can you deduce what that might be? (source)
Other Necessary Items to Complement This Course
Schedule
This study guide includes 33 lessons, each requiring approximately 30-40 minutes. You can either schedule it:
- Three times a week for 11 weeks, allowing for exams during the 12th week, or
- Once a week for an entire year, allowing time for exams at the end of each term and including other science subjects on the other days of the week.
This guide uses the tools and prompts
- Reading assignments
- Narration and discussion prompts
- Activities and experiments related to the reading
- Supplemental current events, books, videos, and article suggestions
- Leisure reading options
- Exam questions
Sample Lessons
A digital version can be purchased below, but the paperback copies of this study guide must be purchased on Amazon.